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said to be used at Doncaster (Neville Wood's Naturalist, 1837), 

 is but one of that author's fancy book-names. 



[Dartford Warbler. Sylvia undata {Boddaert). 



In Thomas Allis's Report, 1844, the following occurs : — 



Melizophilus provincialis — Dartford Warbler. Said by W. Edison 

 to occur near Huddersfiield, the only Yorkshire locality. 

 (But it is crossed out.) 



No faith is to be placed in the record of this species in 

 the Rivelin Valley by Dixon, quoted in the " Handbook of 

 Yorkshire Vertebrata," p. 21 ; and the alleged discovery of 

 a nest and eggs in Cleveland {Nat. 1896, p. 240), is, as Mr. 

 Charles Milburn tells me, open to the very gravest doubt ; 

 therefore, until more satisfactory evidence is forthcoming, 

 the bird must be expunged from the Yorkshire list.] 



HEDGE ACCENTOR. 



Accentor modularis (Z). 



Resident ; generally distributed, there not being a district in the 

 county from which it is not reported ; common, except in moorland 

 localities. A spring and autumn migrant. 



An early allusion, perhaps the earliest, to this species as 

 a Yorkshire bird is contained in the communication addressed 

 by Dr. Martin Lister to John Ray and dated York, February 

 8th 1675, where it is thus alluded to : " The Ciirrucca or 

 Hedge Sparrow, which I have often seen, lays sea-green 

 or pale blue eggs, which neatly emptied and wired, fair 

 ladies wear at their ears for pendants." (" Correspondence 

 of John Ray," p. 117.) 



Thomas Allis, in 1844, wrote : — 



Accentor modularis. — Hedge Sparrow. 



As an abundant and familiar resident, the Hedge Sparrow, 

 for as such it is best known to Yorkshiremen, demands 

 but little attention. It is common or general in the wide- 

 spread localities affording the usual simple haunts of the 

 bird, namely gardens, shrubberies, and hedgerows ; though 



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